Date: Tuesday 27 February 2024
Time: 8:30am - 1:00pm (AEST)
Location: Groundwork Plus | 6 Mayneview St, Milton Brisbane

Is chronic unease healthy?

Having a healthy level of chronic unease can help identify weak danger signals, reduce complacency, and improve alertness. However, just because a catastrophic event hasn’t happened, unfortunately doesn’t mean it won’t! 

Positive reinforcement of reporting near-miss events, acting on weak danger signals, and freely communicating good and bad news are all signs of a healthy culture. Examples of weak danger signals could include: 

• Unexpected maintenance results
• Variations from good practice that has become tolerated
• Noticing a colleague is distracted while carrying out a critical process
• A decision to carry on that we think was made too quickly

Course Overview

Critical Control Management (CCM) is an internationally recognised approach and an integral part of risk management that focuses on identifying and managing the controls that are critical to preventing catastrophic or fatal events. Critical controls can either prevent a serious incident from happening in the first place or minimise the consequences if a serious accident was to occur.  Effective CCM plays a pivotal role in ensuring workplace safety and reducing Material Unwanted Events (MUEs).  They have the ability to avert serious incidents or significantly mitigate their impact in the unfortunate event of an accident.

Often organisations struggle to understand how to get started, how to deploy effective programs or avoid unintended consequences. By nature, critical controls are critical, so understanding how to manage them is often a key strategic priority for most organisations.  To determine how effective your critical control verification activity is, ask the following:

• Are your metrics driving the right behaviour?
• Are you overly reliant on injury statistics?
• Are you focused on quantity of activity, rather than quality of controls?
• Do your operations have a healthy level of chronic unease?

CCM enables organisations to better allocate resources.  Targeting the critical few, assist boards, senior management and frontline operations to understand priorities, verify critical controls are effective and prevent catastrophic events. This ensures critical controls are not only in place, but also effective to prevent fatalities and catastrophic events.

Learning Objectives & Outcomes

• Material Unwanted Events (MUE): How to Identify and Map What’s Important
  • Gain the ability to recognise and prioritise important factors contributing to unwanted events
• Critical Controls: How to Identify the Critical Few
  • Develop the skills to distinguish and prioritise the most critical controls
• Critical Performance Standards: How to set clear expectations and build capability
  • Learn how to set transparent expectations and foster skill development
• Critical Control Verification: Are your controls effective?
  • Gain the skill to assess and validate the efficacy of implemented control

• Critical Control Measurement: Evaluating effectiveness to add value
  • Develop the ability to evaluate and enhance the value provided by CCM

Who is this course for?

The course is recommended for:

• Quarry Managers
•  Quarry Supervisors
• Senior Managers
• Operations Managers
• Those with responsibility for safe systems of work, management, and supervision.

• IQA QMCS: Safety & Risk Management
  

A Certificate will be issued upon completion of the workshop. 

Registration Fees
IQA Member:  $320
Non Member: $450

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Registrations Close: Thursday 22 February 2024 (unless booked out prior)

Disclaimer
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